Doug Liman Quotes

On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

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• There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Money
  • Acting

• An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Powerful
  • Fight
  • Alliance

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • You
  • Economy

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • People
  • Think
  • Ancestors

• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Complexity
  • Humour

• Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Live
  • Try
  • Medicine

• I've had every hair style imaginable.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Had

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Forget
  • Bosnia

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Stars

• What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Great
  • Success
  • Perfect

• I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Night
  • Dad
  • Day

• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Practice
  • Key
  • Swing

• Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Money
  • Scary

• There's no doubt in my mind or anyone else's mind that people like Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, and Sam Smith are where they are because they're supremely talented people, and I have a lot of respect for them.

  

  James Arthur
  • People
  • Mind
  • Respect

• The main fear comes from playing a character that so many people know from the comic books, and there's a long history of people unhappy with movies and TV shows who make alterations to comic book characters.

  

  Joseph David-Jones
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Comic Book

• My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Father
  • Career
  • Service

• I went to, while I was in the military, Western New England College for my MBA and New England School of Law for my law degree.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• On 'Edge of Tomorrow,' we discovered that movie while we were making it.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Movie